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spartan::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | severe |
spartan::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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spartan courage.
spartan:: | Spocien Dictionary
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| Derivation | sparta |
Examples of spartan
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She was happy with the old diesel trains with their spartan but clean carriages.
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The world of small presses, fellowships and spartan living have kept him afloat.
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It has a spartan interface that needs work and is not as usable as it should be.
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Fans used to today's luxurious arenas might find the Palestra dated and spartan.
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He was a reclusive man who for years paid himself the spartan salary of $10,000.
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Spartan citizens used helots, a dependent group collectively owned by the state.
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Their spartan personal office contains little more than two desks for the bosses.
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The one I got as a rental in Madison, WI was bottom of the barrel skimpy spartan.
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At night, I lie in a spartan yet comfortable bed, surrounded by mosquito netting.
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- Of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people
- A resident of Sparta
- Resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity; "spartan courage"
- Severe: unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment; "a parent severe to the pitch of hostility"- H.G.Wells; "a hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien"; "a strict disciplinarian"; "a Spartan upbringing"
- Ascetic: practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"
- (sparta) an ancient Greek city famous for military prowess; the dominant city of the Peloponnesus prior to the 4th century BC
- Spartan may refer to: * Pertaining to Sparta ** Spartan hoplite, heavy infantryman in the Spartan army. ** Spartan army * Metaphorical meanings: ** Very self-disciplined or self-restricted, ascetic. ** Overly simple, frugal, or stern: a Spartan lifestyle, Spartan living-conditions. ...
- Recurring characters from the science fiction media franchise Halo are organized below by their respective factions in the fictional universe. ...
- The Spartan apple is an apple cultivar developed by Dr. R.C Palmer and introduced in 1936 from the Federal Agriculture Research Station in Summerland, British Columbia, now known as the Pacific Agri-food Research Centre - Summerland. ...
